A Collection of Quotations

A COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS

 
Quotation Author

"After all is said and done, more is said than done." Aesop

"When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." Gracie Allen

"I'm not afraid to die.  I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen

"The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do." Anonymous

"Love is not about who you live with. It's about who you can't live without." Anonymous

"A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world Anonymous

walks out"
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." Anonymous

"Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior Anonymous

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work."
"Wit is educated insolence." Aristotle

"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." Aristotle

"One swallow does not make the spring." Aristotle

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do." Aristotle

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening Aristotle

fruit."
"There is safety in numbers." Anonymous

B "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." Sir Francis Bacon

  "Knowledge is power." Sir Francis Bacon

  "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Sir Francis Bacon

  "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." Honore de Balzac

  "It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and Honore de Balzac

taking action."
  "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." Orlando A; Battisa

  "There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare Charles Baudelaire

not start.
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so Alexander Graham
Bell
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us."
  "Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory." Ingrid Bergman

  "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the Otto von Bismarck

mistakes of others.
  "Ability is nothing without opportunity." Napoleon Bonaparte

  "Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever." Napoleon Bonaparte

  "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte

  "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." Jacques Bossuet

   
C "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." Miguel de Cervantes

  "There are people who have money and people who are rich." Coco Chanel

  "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." G.K. Chesterton

  "A woman used her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition." G.K. Chesterton

  "I married an archaeologist because the older I grow the more he Agatha Christie

appreciates me."
  "Very few of us are what we seem." Agatha Christie

  "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill

  "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the Winston Churchill

opportunity in every difficulty."

  "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of Winston Churchill

enthusiasm."
  "If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

  "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Winston Churchill

  "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get Winston Churchill

its pants on."

"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill

  "Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." Winston Churchill

  "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." Cicero

  "Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to it E.M.Cioran

predecessors."
  "I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those you Jean Cocteau

dislike?"
  "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Conficius

  "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Conficius

  "Our greatest glory is not in ever falling, but in rising every time we fall." Conficius

  "Respect yourself and others will respect you." Conficius

  "The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct." Conficius

  "Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood." Marie Curie

   
D "The only difference between me and  a madman is that I'm not mad." Salvador Dali
  "Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it." Salvador Dali

  "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most Charles Darwin

intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

  "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." Marlene Dietrich

  "Talk to a man about him and he will listen for hours." Benjamin Disraeli

  "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, Benjamin Disraeli

but reveal to him his own."

  "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." Benjamin Disraeli

  "Little things affect little minds." Benjamin Disraeli

  "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." Benjamin Disraeli

  "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." Benjamin Disraeli

  "Success is the child of audacity." Benjamin Disraeli

  "Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together; at the door where the Alexandre Dumas

latter enters, the former makes its exit.

  "All for one and one for all." Alexandre Dumas